Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king

between 1920 B.C. and 1750 B.C.
hematite
20.5 x 10 mm
Morgan Seal 850
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes: 

"The first group [of Cappadocian seals] is called Old Assyrian, because seals showing a similar deep, angular engraving have been found at Ashur (Berlin 505, 508) ... Many seals in this group depict the presentation of a worshiper by an interceding goddess to an enthroned figure holding a cup (844-851). This theme, which derives from the glyptic of the Third Dynasty of Ur, was perpetuated in Isin-Larsa and early Old Babylonian cylinders. However, several features differentiate the Old Assyrian renderings from these contemporaneous south-Mesopotamian representations. Such features are ... the weather god shouldering a weapon (849, 850), ... the sun disk enclosing a cross instead of a star, and the small v-shaped designs often placed in the sky."--Porada, CANES, p. 107-108

Summary: 

Worshiper and suppliant goddess before enthroned god or king holding cup, with addition at left of god on bull, holding weapon, lightning fork, and rein of kneeling bull on which he stands -- In sky, cross disk in crescent.

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